Decorous

Definitions: Decorous

Decorous

Adjective

1. Characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme".

2. According with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior".

Date "decorous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Decorous

Synonyms: becoming (adj), comely (adj), comme il faut (adj), decent (adj), seemly (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: indecorous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dueness	Fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r
Purity	Adjective: pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus puerisque; simon-pure; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic.
Respect	Adjective: respecting;Verb: respectful, deferential, decorous, reverential, obsequious, ceremonious, bareheaded, cap in hand, on one's knees; prostrate; (servile).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Decorous

English words defined with "decorous": Becomed ♦ decorously. (references)

Specialty definitions using "decorous": Crotona's Sage. (references)

Etymologies containing "decorous": Becomed ♦ Dedecorous ♦ indecorous. (references)

Author	Quotation
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	It is scarcely decorous, however, to speak all, even where we speak impersonally.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Tom looked down the line of tents and he saw Ruthie and Winfield standing in front of a tent in decorous conversation with someone inside.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Decorous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Decorous" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	42	52,864

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "decorous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		si duhet (decent, happily, Pat, right, rightly), i hijshëm (becoming, charming, comely, cool, dainty, decent, delicate, delicious, distinguished, elegant, graceful, jimp, nice, personable). (various references)

Arabic		‏محتشم (bashful, chaste, coy, decent, demure, honest, modest, reserved, shy), ‏لائق (becoming, comeliness, correct, decent, fit, proper, qualified, seemly, suitable), ‏إحتشم (chaste, decent). (various references)

Bulgarian		скромен (abstemious, chaste, conservative, decent, demure, frugal, humble, maidenlike, maidenly, mean, modest, obscure, quakerish, quiet, retiring, shamefaced, simple, small, unambitious, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpresuming, unpretending, unpretentious), благоприличен (christian, decent, modest, proper, tasteful). (various references)

Chinese		得�" (Decorum). (various references)

Czech		korektní (above board, correct, seemly, tactful). (various references)

Farsi		مودب (Courteous, Courtly, Debonair, Housebroken, Mannerly, Nice, Respectful, Suave, Unselfish, Urbane), زینت دار, اراسته (Brisk, Decent, Natty, Politic, Prissy, Spruce, Sprucy). (various references)

Finnish		säädyllinen (decent, proper, respectable). (various references)

French		convenable (decent), bienséant (decent), être décent. (various references)

German		schicklich (becoming, comely, decent, decorously, fitting, fittingly, proper, seemly), anständig (above-board, becoming, comely, decent, decently, decorously, fairly, handsome, handsomely, honest, modest, modestly, perennially, proper, reputable, respectable, self-respecting, sizable, sizeable, sporting, sportingly, square, upright). (various references)

Greek		κόσμιοσ (comely, decent, neat, proper, tidy), ευπρεπήσ (decent, seemly). (various references)

Hebrew		מ� ומס (civil, courteous, gentleman, mannerly, polite, suave, tactful). (various references)

Hungarian		illedelmes (comely, decent, demure, mannered, proper, well-behaved, well-conducted). (various references)

Indonesian		tahu adat. (various references)

Italian		decoroso (decent, seemly), decente (chaste, decent, descreet, discreet, fitting, proper, reasonable, seemly, suitable). (various references)

Manx		cooie (applicable, apt, befit, competent, congruent, decent, hereditary, opportune, suitable, timely), beasagh (civil, civil as person, civilized, moral, quiet-mannered, submissive). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecorousday

Portuguese		decoroso (fitting, proper, seemly, suitable), decente (comely, decent, demure, honest, seemly). (various references)

Romanian		decent (decent, decently, decorously, modest, properly, respectable, seemly), potrivit (according, according to, adequate, ample, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, assorted, average, becoming, befitting, commensurate, condign, congenial, congruous, conservative, correct, corresponding, due, duly, eligible, felicitous, fit, fitting, in point, likely, middling, moderate, moderately, opportune, Pat, proper, pursuant to, right, seemly, suitable, suited, to), la locul sãu, cuviincios (becoming, decent). (various references)

Russian		пристойный (proper). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uljudan (courteous, genteel, well mannered), pristojan (decent, proper, respectable, seemly). (various references)

Spanish		decoroso (dignified, seemly). (various references)

Swedish		anständig (clean, decent, demure, proper, respectable, seemly). (various references)

Turkish		zevkli (delightful, easy, enjoyable, fun, gracious, pleasurable, select, tasteful, tasty, zestful), terbiyeli (blushing, civil-spoken, decent, mannerly, polite, proper, seasoned, well mannered, well-behaved), münasip (agreeable, apposite, congruous, meet, Pat, pertinent, proper, suitable, tailormade). (various references)

Ukranian		що додержу�" пристойності, пристойний (becoming, decent, plausible, presentable, proper, white), порядний (conventional, decent, gentlemanly, well doing, white). (various references)

Vietnamese		phải phép, lịch thiệp (tacful), đoan trang (comely, decent, decently, matronal, matronlike, matronly, respectable), đúng mực (proper, regular, well-balanced), đứng đắn; lịch sự. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	decora, decoram, decoraque, decoras, decori, decoris, decoros, decorum, decorus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "decorous": decorously, decorousness, decorousnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "decorous": indecorous. (additional references)
	Words containing "decorous": indecorously, indecorousness, indecorousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Decorous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decoro, decorua, decorus, decourous, decurous, delorous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "decorous" (pronounced de"kerus)
4	-k er u s	cantankerous, rancorous.
3	-er u s	adulterous, adventurous, amorous, avarice, barbarous, boisterous, cancerous, carboniferous, carnivorous, coniferous, dangerous, fossiliferous, generous, glamorous, herbivorous, heterosporous, homosporous, humerus, humorous, insectivorous, lecherous, murderous, numerous, odorous, omnivorous, onerous, overgenerous, oviparous, ovoviviparous, phosphorous, phosphorus, ponderous, precancerous, preposterous, prosperous, rapturous, rhinoceros, rigorous, slanderous, sonorous, tetramerous, thunderous, timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unglamorous, uterus, vigorous, viviparous, vociferous.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-o-o-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: coursed, scoured, sourced.
	-2 letters: cerous, coders, cooers, course, credos, crouse, crudes, cursed, decors, douser, durocs, escudo, odours, rodeos, roosed, roscoe, roused, scored, source, soured, uredos.
	-3 letters: ceros, coder, codes, coeds, cooed, cooer, cords, cored, cores, corse, coude, credo, crude, cruds, cruse, curds, cured, cures, curse, decor, decos, doers, doors, doser, douce, douse, druse, duces, dures, duroc, duros, ecrus, euros, odors, odour, ordos, redos, resod, rodeo, roods, roose, rosed, roues, rouse, score, scour, scrod, scudo, sucre, sudor, uredo.
	-4 letters: cero, code, cods, coed, coos, cord, core, cors, crud, crus, cuds, cued, cues, curd, cure, curs, deco, docs, doer, does, door, dore, dors, dose, dour, duce, dues, duos, dure, duro, ecru, ecus, eros, euro, odes, odor, orcs, ordo, ores, ouds, ours, recs, redo, reds, rocs, rode, rods, roes, rood, rose, roue, rude, rued, rues, ruse, scud, sord, sore, sour, sued, suer, surd, sure, udos, urds, used, user.
	-5 letters: cod, coo, cor, cos, cud, cue, cur, doc, doe, dor, dos, due, duo, ecu, eds, ers, ode, ods, oes, orc, ore, ors, ose, oud, our, rec, red, res, roc, rod, roe, rue, sec, ser, sod, sou, sue, udo, urd, use.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-o-o-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: decolours, outscored.
	+2 letters: cofounders, coproduces, decorously, indecorous, outcrossed, outscorned, overclouds, undercools.
	+3 letters: bloodsucker, compounders, confounders, coproducers, outproduces, overfocused, supercooled, woodcutters.
	+4 letters: bloodsuckers, computerdoms, counterposed, decorousness, discomposure, discourteous, fluoroscoped, indecorously, orchidaceous, overconsumed, overdiscount, overfocussed, overproduces, photoreduces, proctodaeums, urochordates.
	+5 letters: counterorders, counterpoised, counterworlds, creaturehoods, deconstructor, discomposures, mispronounced, nondisclosure, outreproduces, overcredulous, overdiscounts, overdocuments, pseudomorphic, reproductions, semiconductor.
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